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Oct. 27, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 27, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program have riveted the nation.
For nearly 30 years, we're now into our 28th year behind a golden EIB microphone here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
And just a brief, brief, brief little self-indulgent reminder.
This is opening day.
This is release day for the fourth in the series of Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans series.
It's a series of children's books on American history and the truth about it.
This is Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner.
And it's got some new directions from the other four books.
There's Time Travel, Back to the Constitution as it's written.
This is the great thing about these books, if I may say so, is that these great moments in American history are relived because of the time travel capability of Liberty the Talking Horse.
Rush Revere, the substitute teacher is able to take some students back anywhere in American history.
In this book, go back to the actual battle where our national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner, was written.
And Francis Scott Key writes it and explains why, what moves him, the whole story behind it.
And you might think, well, man, Rush, stop and think from it.
The World Series tonight.
National anthem is going to be played before the game, as it always is.
It'll be televised nationally.
And everybody knows the words.
But I wonder how many people, particularly young people, know the story behind the national anthem.
How it was written, why it was written, what it signifies.
Really?
I wonder how many people now, even including into adulthood, were actually taught the story versus had it glossed over or just highlighted or what have you.
But it's something that's part of our culture.
It's played before every seminal event, sports and otherwise.
And it's become almost just rote that people recite the song and they sing the songs or recite the lyrics and so forth.
But the real story behind it is another one of the amazing miracles of American history and the founding.
They also, if we time travel back to when the Constitution was written, James Madison, the father of the Constitution, students get to ask him questions.
He explains things at their level that questions they would have and in ways they would understand what was going on.
Profound events that are brought to life in these books.
And that's how they're learned and experienced by actually taking the reader and placing the reader at that moment in time.
The stories of the American founding are miraculous.
Series of miracles that took place for this country to come into existence.
And a series of miracles that structured this country to give it staying power, if you will.
Imagine a document written hundreds of years ago that still is the shining jewel of the world in terms of self-government.
Timeless, despite the fact that there are Americans who don't like it and want to get rid of it, all the more reason for young people today to understand it.
That's the task that we have undertaken.
Make it interesting, enlightening, fun, and real.
So the fourth book in the series, Rush Revere Star Spangled Banner, is on the shelf today.
It's been in pre-order for a month, but now you can actually go in there and get it.
And you know what I'm going to do?
I keep referencing these emails that we get from people, some of the pictures that they send us.
I'm going to start reading these just now and then.
I'm not going to overwhelm you with it.
But it's amazing the degree of involvement that people are having and the involvement their kids are having in American history and reading that they heretofore had no interest in, so say their parents.
It's all been extremely rewarding.
And if you don't mind, folks, I love sharing my passions.
And I really do love sharing this experience with you, as I have most everything else that's happened during the course of my life on this program.
So just wanted to let you know that it's out and it's just something that we believe in totally.
And the feedback that we get is more reward than we ever expected.
So happy with the way things are working out with it.
Rush Revere Star Smangle Banner.
Now, I've got a couple of different ways I could go here.
I have still a whole bunch of drive-by media soundbites where they're extolling the happiness and the virtue of Trump finally having peaked in their view, and it's over, and Carson now on top in Iowa.
And there's a whole stack of news stories and stuff here as well.
I just saw a poll, by the way.
Hillary Clinton's pulled ahead of Bernie Sanders by 41 points in Iowa.
Which doesn't surprise me.
I told you people from the get-go that Bernie Sanders was never going to be the nominee of this party.
And it was never, ever going to happen.
41-point lead.
And yet, people paying half attention think that all the excitement is with Bernie Sanders.
The Democrats really should cancel their primary, save a bunch of money, just coronate the babe because she is the nominee.
They ought to just move on and stop the pretense of this.
Scientists hit back at claims red meat causes cancer.
Scientists have responded here to the World Health Organization for claiming that sausages, bacon, and ham could pose as big a cancer risk as cigarettes.
Now that is just flat out irresponsible.
And it is derived from panic.
The global warming movement is fading.
The global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it, is losing steam because there isn't any.
There isn't any erratic weather.
There isn't any drastic warming.
There isn't any ice sheet melt.
Although, you know, I was watching, sometimes I watch this TV show, Madam Secretary, on CBS on Sunday night.
That's a show that's designed to elect Hillary Clinton president.
And this, I think this was last episode of Sunday night, there was a reference to the Russians, or maybe the CHICOMs, trying to put some sort of an observatory in the North Pole.
And it might end up actually being a military installation for either launching weapons or spying rather than what the Chikoms or Russians said it was as just a scientific outpost to study.
And there was a reference, all of the melting ice at the North Pole is creating new waters that the Russians are claiming is their own.
There isn't any melting at the North Pole.
And there isn't any in Antarctica either.
And every day we're faced with this onset of lies and distortions, such as beef, processed meat, bacon, sausage, cancer is as big a cancer threat as cigarettes.
And this is all brought to you by the Democrat Party, the party of political science, trying to now scare people into believing that meat causes cancer and those.
I just, I think it's outrageous.
I think it's actionable what these people are doing that actually damaging legitimate businesses and panicking people over this kind of thing.
And there's nothing that can be done to them because it all happens under the confines of politics or the confines of science.
These scientists are not said to be competitors if anybody in the beef industry.
No, they're just trying to save lives and all this papa.
But it never ends.
Headlines on Drudge today, just to give you an example of how the crisis industry is alive and well.
American lifestyle no longer non-negotiable is a headline.
What does that mean?
I'll tell you what it means.
It's a story about climate change and global warming and how we're causing it.
Too much freedom.
Too much freedom to buy meat.
Too much freedom to drive big cars.
Too much freedom to get on too many airplanes.
Too much freedom to have too many barbecues.
Whatever it is.
The American lifestyle poses the greatest threat to climate change, the greatest threat to climate stability.
And so the American lifestyle no longer non-negotiable means the United Nations or some other authority should have total power To determine how people can live.
UN agency armed with drones and bombs to enforce climate compliance is another headline.
Another one is global bishops.
Ah, yes, you see, bring in some bishops.
Bring in some radical leftist religious people.
Call them bishops or priests or pastors or whatever and give them the image of infallibility and then have them call for complete decarbonization.
Bishops, global bishops, global religious people call for complete decarbonization.
That, by the way, would not be possible.
Here's a story in the Washington Post.
A new Washington Post analysis shows that in almost all fatal police shootings, police are totally justified.
Yeah, Washington Post.
The report analyzed 800 fatal police shootings.
Only a small number of the shootings, 5%, occurred under the kind of circumstances that raise doubt and draw public outcry, according to an analysis by the Washington Post.
I wonder who hacked the Washington Post and got this story published under their banner.
You see where Al Sharpton was asked to deliver the eulogy for the slain African-American New York City cop and refused to do so?
Al Sharpton refused to deliver the eulogy, refused to participate in the funeral of the black New York cop because I'm not a sideshow, he said.
I'm not a sideshow and I'm not going to allow myself to be used to distract people's attention.
Not a sideshow?
The officer was African-American.
The shooter was African-American.
Do you know the details of this shooter?
Have you actually had the details of this shooter explained?
You have to, when you read news stories about the shooter, and you wonder how in the world is the guy not in jail?
What in the world is the guy doing out of jail?
Let me share some of the details with you.
Pardon the sniffles.
I'm still suffering from the tail end of the ravages of whatever virus attacked me a couple of weeks ago.
In fact, hang on here a minute.
Okay.
New York City Police Officer Randolph Holder, shot, murdered by Tyrone Howard.
Tyrone Howard, a career criminal, has been convicted, convicted of robbery, felony drug sale, felony drug sale, felony drug sale.
That's right, multiple crimes.
Felony drug sale.
Convicted.
Robbery, felony drug sale, four times drug possession, public lewdness, felony drug sale again, drug possession three times more, and another felony drug sale, a total of seven felony drug sale convictions, four convictions for drug possession, one for public lewdness.
And there are two shootings this year he was involved in still being investigated.
This man, this criminal, was put in a diversion program by the New York City court system.
A diversion, which means that the court, the judge, allowed him to escape jail if he promised to go to drug rehab.
He skipped out on the rehab.
He was being sought by police when he shot Officer Holder in the head.
I have actually come across, in my omnivorous and voluminous show prep, I've come across a bunch of leftists in journalism.
How in the world can this happen?
How in the world can a career criminal like this be on the street?
How come somebody like this is in jail from the same people, the same people who demand that we let everybody out of jail because this country is unfairly convicting and imprisoning African-American men and they make big causes about getting these prisoners released,
that all this incarceration is an example of white racism and the white power structure attempting to do great damage to the black population by putting all the black men in jail.
Well, here's one who didn't go to jail and should have been in jail for the rest of his life for all these convictions, gets a diversion program after all of these prior convictions.
A diversion pro you, if you successfully go through a diversion program, you could have the crime wiped off the books.
You could have it expunged.
The guy walks out on the diversion program and commits murder, kills the cop, and a bunch of leftists ringing.
How can this happen?
Because of you is how it happens, because you put all this pressure on the criminal justice system to let these people out of jail.
Damn it.
Why do you think he's out of jail?
Pardon me for getting a little agitated here.
Who is it that's running around saying our system is unfair because it's unfairly imprisoning an inordinate number of African-American men, criminals?
Movements led by none other than the Reverend Dax and Reverend Sharpton, who will not show up and give the eulogy because he says he's not a sideshow.
You're wondering why this guy's not in jail?
You're wondering why he's able to run out and pull a trigger?
Look in the mirror.
Hi, Paru.
Welcome back to the phones we go.
Not enough time here in three hours to get done.
Everything I want to get done.
Where are we going next?
This would be Bill in Logan, Iowa.
Bill, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Gittos.
Hey, I'm talking about Jeb Bush's comment about Marco Rubio being the Republican Barack Obama.
To me, that demonstrates how out of touch Jeb Bush is and that he thinks Barack Obama's biggest issue is the fact that he was a novice or a rookie.
I don't know.
That's all I could read into that comment there.
Yeah, that was curious.
Jeb thinks it's a profound influence of Rubio to say he's the GOP Obama.
You think he was referring to lack of experience in the Senate?
I couldn't figure out what else he was relating it to.
Yeah, because I don't know what Jeb disagrees with Obama about.
So I don't know what the criticism would be.
Yeah, to me, it was just the fact that he didn't have enough experience going in.
Well, here, I think we have an answer.
We see it.
Grab soundbite number 24.
Wolf Blitzer today talked to Jeb's communication director, Tim Miller.
And he said, look, Marco Rubio, been some bad blood apparently lately between Jeb and Marco.
How's Jeb going to deal with Marco Rubio?
Why is Jeb better qualified to be president than Rubio is?
We took a risky bet with President Obama seven years ago.
That didn't work out.
I think what the voters are looking for is somebody who has proven experience to get the country on the right track.
So Rubio would be a risky bet like President Obama was?
Is that the impression I should have?
Yeah, look, it's not known.
You know, Marco has not shown the leadership abilities to actually get things done, to actually have accomplishments.
I mean, this is a huge contrast with Jeb.
So there you go, Bill.
It is an insult rooted in the fact that Rubio is the same inexperienced doofus that Obama was.
I guess Bill hung up.
Bill didn't realize that he had a golden opportunity to comment on the soundbite.
Well, when I heard, when I heard that, the first thing I thought of, aha, Rubio is the donor's second-to-go go-to guy.
And that's why Jeb's hitting him.
Jeb's hitting Rubio because Rubio is who the donors want if Jeb flames out.
That's what that comment's about.
I mean, if it, what other way is Rubio similar to Obama?
Got me.
Okay, grab audio soundbite number four when we get back to those.
Frank in Waco, Texas.
It's great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Rush, I'm so excited I got through.
20-plus year dittos.
Wanted to tell you what I'm doing with your books.
Oh, great.
Okay, thank you.
Well, I'm reading them to my grandkids.
But here's the deal.
I'm in Waco, Texas.
My grandkids are in Seattle, Washington.
So what I'm doing is recording myself reading them.
And actually, I just have your first book so far.
But what they're going to do is what I'm going to do is for Christmas, they're going to get your book along with a flash drive with a recording of me reading.
So every night before they go to bed, they can just click on the next chapter or whatever and hear me reading their books to them.
So you actually get the book, you read the book, you send them the recording that you have made reading the book.
Right.
I know you have your own audio version, but I wanted it to be from me.
Well, I understand that.
I understand that.
Have you thought about reading the book to them over the phone?
Well, yeah, but there's a time difference from two hours from where we live and they are and your schedules and stuff.
It doesn't work out well.
Well, all right.
Have you heard, do you have a cell phone, like an iPhone or an iPad or anything like that?
And do they?
I have an iPhone, not an iPad.
I think they have an iPad.
All right.
Well, there is a feature on the iPhone and the iPad called FaceTime.
Right.
Do you know what it is?
I know what it is.
Yeah.
It's just hard to get the scheduling down.
Oh, okay.
So it's a scheduling thing.
Right.
Well, this is profound effort.
Don't misunderstand.
I mean, actually, I know you want them to hear the book from you.
Yep.
And I think that's great.
I think it's beautiful.
That's over-the-top effort on your part.
And I'm sure they love hearing your voice read the book to them as well.
Right.
And I'm enjoying doing it.
I'm about halfway through your first book.
And my goal is by Christmas to have at least two books recorded to give to them.
I've not heard this one before, folks.
I really haven't.
This is.
I've heard of reading the book in the same room.
You're reading to the child in bed, but you're actually recording it on jump drive and you're sending the flash drive to them and they get it whatever they have time for.
And therefore, time zone differences are not a problem.
Right.
Wow.
And I'm loving it, and they're loving it.
I've sent them a couple of previews.
Like I say, for Christmas, I want to send them the whole book or two or whatever I have time to get through.
So right now they're on the first book, Rush Reverend The Brave Pilgrims.
How far into it are they?
We're just, I think we're on the third chapter.
You're on the third chapter?
I started this, yeah.
Wow.
Well, that's, that's, that's, that's over the top.
I, I, uh, as I say, this is a first.
And it's touching that you really want them.
How old are they again?
I have a grandson who is six, and then I have twin granddaughters.
And what age are they?
They just turned three, so it's a little early for them.
Oh, okay.
This makes it even better.
So they can't really, their reading level is not proficient quite yet.
Right.
Especially the granddaughters.
Right.
Well, that is that is a that's an incredible effort.
And I totally understand you wanting them to hear you read it.
You'd love to be with them to be able to read it.
If you can't do that, this is the next best thing.
Absolutely.
Amazing.
Amazing.
Well, I wonder how we can help here.
What could we possibly do to help?
The airplay suggestion blew up.
The iPhone iPad suggestion blew up.
Did you say the airplane suggestion?
Airplane.
Well, I meant FaceTime.
Yeah, okay.
No, no, no, no, no, not airplane.
No, no, no.
No.
I was confusing airplay and FaceTime.
I'm sorry.
It's a two different.
No, I mean, I don't need it.
I've got your first book so far.
I'm going to be getting the others, you know, at some point.
And I just love doing it.
Well, it's a yeah, it's the Beatles.
Let it be.
I mean, there's really not a whole lot here to say.
Do you ever you don't need to break from it because you do it whenever you have time and you're indigenous level and that's it.
I was going to offer to send you the CDs of me reading it, but that didn't defeat the whole purpose.
Well, I mean, I'd love to have the books, but yeah, I love doing the recording myself.
Aha.
You'd rather have the books.
That's right, because you can't read the books to them if you don't have them.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
What did it take 10 minutes to figure this out?
I am, though, an evil-rich business owner, so I could buy them myself.
You're an evil-rich business owner.
All right.
Well, I'll tell you what.
What?
However, going back to something you said a while ago about hiring the aliens first.
Yeah.
My children who graduated college, they need to understand that they can't be expected to be hired because that business owner didn't build his business.
Yeah, that's true.
Everybody else did.
All right.
Well, look, Frank, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
Hang on, Mr. Snerdley, we'll get your address.
And we might send a Liberty doll to your grandkids or a couple.
Some of the other things here, too, and maybe other goodies we can throw in there to enhance the experience they have of having you read the books too.
It's great.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Well, don't let we're doing the 2017 budget today.
Have you forgotten?
I just look, I haven't had a chance to study this, folks, so we're late in the program, and I'm not going to be able to get into this in any detail.
Just saw something here during the break that Ben Carson just said somewhere.
In fact, let me just find very quickly here.
What is this?
It looks like a little quote in a post from thehill.com.
Ben Carson is quoted as saying, the heck with waiting till September or October to do the budget.
If I'm elected in January 2017, we'll begin to address the budget immediately.
We're not going to wait until October, November to do it.
We're backed against the wall.
I'll make it very, very clear.
There'll not be any budget signed that increases the debt ceiling.
It'll have to be done.
We're going to do it.
And everybody's saying, well, it's an idiot.
You can't do that.
You can't do the budget in January.
Why not?
We're doing the 2017 budget today.
Remember the Bloomberg story we had yesterday?
The House Republicans have agreed to go along with the Democrats and do a two-year budget deal that would feature raising the debt limit so the Republicans are not faced with the trauma of the political damage from a government shutdown and the Democrats get all the spending that they want.
And this is said to be Boehner's gift.
Yeah, Boehner's gift to Paul.
We're here, Paul.
I'm going to give you something and take it off your table so you have to worry about it the first two years you're speaker or whatever.
And Ryan is on record saying, this doesn't make any sense at all.
And he's on record as not supporting it right now.
Right now.
But I'm more interested, the guy that sent me this is a what you call this guy, stockbroker, trader, day trader, investor, self proclaimed expert and all of it.
His reaction is hilarious.
This is idiotic.
This guy's proving he's not qualified.
You don't do the budget this way.
You can't raise a debt limit.
We're going to default.
We've got to raise a debt limit.
And this guy, by the way, votes straight ticket Republican.
And we've got to vote.
We've got to raise a debt limit or we'll default.
And we won't.
But see, this is interesting.
Here's a straight ticket voter, ardent conservative, who thinks if you're not going to raise a debt limit, the country's going to collapse.
But the point is, we still can service debt and we can still pay Social Security without raising the debt limit.
There are reserves.
Since this came up the last time the debt limit was presented as a crisis, we're not going to default.
There's enough money in the till to pay bills for what you can pay bills with current revenue coming in for crying out loud.
You're not shut out.
This is so silly.
Tax receipts are at an all-time high.
Figure it would be the case with a Democrat president.
Tax receipts are at an all-time high.
You pay debt.
You're ongoing.
That's what the income that you're getting from that.
We're surrounded by neophytes.
Neophytes in government, outside of government, everywhere.
Here's Susan in Flushing, Michigan.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very, very well.
Thank you.
Good.
So good to talk to you again.
I wanted to call and comment about the polls that are out right now about Trump being behind Carson.
I personally find it very interesting that a few days before the debate that they are now coming out with not one, but two or three different polls that are showing Trump behind Carson.
Yes.
And I'm wondering, because the media, who tends to and loves to mislead and lie to us about things, if this is really, can we put any, you know, leverage on these polls?
Or is this something that they're using to maybe try and trip Trump up at the debate so that he will go after Carson and maybe will drop in the polls?
There's no way you know.
You're going to have to just form an opinion one way or the other.
You're going to tell yourself that the polls are jimmied and they're being rigged here for a reason or trust them.
Those are your two options.
You're never going to learn for sure the polls are rigged.
So you're going to have to use that on faith.
Now, one thing you can do, you can if you want to give yourself some sort of evidentiary backup, a little legal lingo there.
My dad was a lawyer.
Remember when Trump said he would get out of the race if he was not leading in the polls?
Now, he was widely misinterpreted there.
He was talking about people at five or six percent or three percent.
He said, Well, I wouldn't stay with the hell who would stay to five or six percent.
But it was reported that Trump would leave the race if he lost the lead.
Now, if you are happen to be a donor or a pollster or whatever, and hey, maybe let's have a poll where he loses the lead.
Maybe he'll quit.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
I don't know any the margin of error in these polls that show that Carson is way up over Trump.
The margin of error is pretty big in these polls.
It's bigger than 3%.
Not that means anything.
I just needed to add that.
Anyway, we're out of here today, folks.
Looks rainy in Kansas City and chilly for the World Series tonight.
It's kind of iffy.
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